Abstract : In the present-day French university system, Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (meaning “accreditation to supervise research”) is a post-doctoral qualification conferred for a thesis accompanied by selected publications, and defended in a process similar to that of a doctoral dissertation. Accordingly, my application for Habilitation comprises (i) ten publications and (ii) a memoir, entitled “Analyzing prosodic systems in East Asia: linguistic fieldwork and experimental phonetics”, which presents my research since completion of my Ph. D. (2005) and sketches out perspectives for future work and for the supervision of younger scholars’ research.